Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Appeals court already under fire for upholding Texas no-content-moderation law

Re: Christian values? By what measure?

I think it's well established that Hashem was of course English, although he moved to America on the Mayflower.

How else would his kid be white ?

Re: Mmmm, Ok

A 'bot' that posts the Shahada or lines from the communist manifesto, or even some of that Jesus dude's memes about the poor under every maga post

Don't say Pentium or Celeron anymore, it's just Processor now, says Intel

Re: Intel?

To be fair this is pretty much true of all embedded cpu in any sort of quantity. Try calling Broadcom and asking for one of the Pi's chips so you can build your own version.

Celeron was originally the branding if you used certain Intel processors AND Intel's wifi chipset.

The idea was that they couldn't demand CPU customers use their expensive wifi chips cos of monopoly laws, but they could stop computer makers from benefiting from the halo of the wonders of the Celeron brand if they didn't pay up

Re: trademarks

>You can trademark a word for purposes it wasn't used for before. Windows brand operating system isn't confusing.

But Windows for a display toolkit was common since the 70s.

Microsoft have been quite aggressive of going after other display toolkits like wxWindows

Heart now pledges 30-seat hybrid electric commercial flights by 2028

Re: metoo

Impossible, what would you call it ? Unless Nikolai Tesla had a middle name then all the acceptable electric vehicle company names are taken

Re: Skin effects

1600KW is a measure of power not energy

Re: Neat

> Otherwise they'll have to use the generators all the time, which means no real difference

Aircraft generally need 100% of engine power at take-off but much less for cruise.

If you have enough battery to supply 50% of take-off power you can rate the engines for 50% - just enough for cruise. It's also quieter and lower emissions at take off - especially important for city centre airports.

Re: It's not time to railroad

Railway electrification could require infrastructure investment that won't pay off in the current financial year.

China can destroy US space assets, Space Force ops nominee warns

> The Air Force and the Navy did the job just fine

There's no air in space so you can't have an air force and have you tried launching a battleship into orbit ?

Re: Purpose

Guardians of Low Earth Orbit doesn't sound as good

White House puts $50m into floating wind turbine projects

Re: Energy, not power

And energy consumption is power. Unless that's 3.9TWh over the whole of US history past and future (in which case what do you know that we don't ?)

Re: Fiddling while Big Oil carries on as usual

>Their target strike price of $48/MWh is AFAIK higher than what the North Sea is already operating at.

The North Sea is very shallow

The pacific off the California / Washington coast is very deep, and gets deep very fast.

The east coast has shallow seas but has storms and nimbys. The great^4 grandchildren who inherited their ocean front homes from 19C industrial barons strangely don't want their view spoiled.

The tech billionaires in California think the wind turbines look cool, but it's currently slightly expensive to buidl them in 4000m deep water

US border cops harvest info from citizens' phones, build massive database

You think it's going to be isolated to the USA?

The only reason the UK doesn't do this is the difficulty of training the police.

"No constable Savage you do not turn on an iPhone by hitting it with a truncheon - that's only Nokias"

Re: Travel to or through the US?

>Security Theater.

I wouldn't mind that, but did it have to be Brecht ?

National security

Now that Britain has a king (with 3rd in his name) then the risks of a repeat of the revolutionary war / traitorous rebellion are very real.

So we need to check everyone's phone in case they are hiding redcoats in it

Actual real-life hoverbike makes US debut at Detroit Auto Show

Re: Well, I’m impressed… not

Payload 100kg, and they are trying to sell it to rich Americans ?

It doesn't even have guns, or cupholders

California Governor signs child privacy law requiring online age checks

Re: Lovely.

Obviously to make it constitutional you would require the PC to have a hole that you insert your gun into.

Re: Simple way to dispense with the need for an age check

The only way to prove you aren't a child is to prove you are an adult. By uploading your driving license/passport/ID card etc, along with allowing the web can to turn on to verify that it's you

Philippines Space Agency warns flyers, fishing boats to avoid falling Chinese rockets

Obviously less than falling rocks. We all know what to do when we see a "Falling Rocks!" sign

Samsung investing $5b in efforts to be carbon neutral by 2050

>"Chip manufacturing, as opposed to hardware use and energy consumption, accounts for most of the carbon output," the report said.

Really? Just for Samsung chips or in general?

The majority of chips by volume are memory flash/dram. The process to make them is going to have to be very energy intensive to cancel out a server running for a decade. You can just think of the energy bill, if a chip costs $1 retail it can't have more $0.1 of energy in its manufacture and you can bet the computer containing the chips is going to use more than "number of chips * $0.1" energy during it's life

> For example, nearly 30 percent of emissions from manufacturing 12-inch wafers are due to PFCs, chemicals, and gases"

That statement doesn't link to the previous one. It's entirely possible that 30% emissions is due to processing chemical steps. But that could still be 1% of the energy to truck the chips to the store or 0.001% of the energy the computer will use during its life

White House to tech world: Promise you'll write secure code – or Feds won't use it

Re: What are the implications for open source software?

You will be able to pay IBM to use their Linux Redhat operating system.

You can always save the money by moving off that expensive IBM mainframe onto that new IBM Redhat cloud, just ask your IBM Redhat salesman

Vendor?

Good job it's 1960 and you buy your hardware, operating system, application and language from the same 'vendor'

Perhaps this will rescue IBM and stop the feds using any of the communist cancer opensource stuff Balmer was warning us about

China's single aisle passenger jet – the C919 – likely to be certified next week

Re: Should we be making lots of airplanes ?

Greta is obviously a front for a new wave of Viking invasions.

First you get rid of all your steam powered navies and then a bunch of carbon-neutral longboats come rowing up the Thames

Re: Should we be making lots of airplanes ?

>The issue is -if you want to go to Spain

Why would any native son of olde England Global Britain wish to go Spain?

I understand Skegness is Bracing

Re: Russian market?

Every last fscking nut and bolt. That's why even bone-yard aircraft coffee machines are worth $$$$$

Any parts supplier that doesn't want permanent bans from the USA at best, and visits from unsympathetic men in acronym-ed windcheaters at worst, is going to be very careful.

They could probably buy scrapped parts from crashed African freight airlines - definitely the sort of thing you want flying over your capital.

Re: Russian market?

>Going by the quality of Russian engineering seen to date in Ukraine

Going by the quality of German engineering seen on D-Day, I will be handing back my BMW !

Re: China Quality

> And the lady doing the tests can clearly been seen faking tests because she has to "meet targets"

So that's where Elizabeth Holmes went

>Lets hope they aren't doing the same with the plane tests.

No need to fake the plane tests, just don't do them and don't tell the Feds

>Its not the people of China that are the issue, it's the CCP that we all have an issue with,

Fortunately in a democracy the failings are the fault of the electorate not the leaders

Re: That's how Airbus started

>he first to offer a in-flight retractable sunroof.

Although the Boeing 737 was the first reusable convertible airliner

Re: size

So American manufacturers are able to cram more Americans across an aircraft today than when they were designed in the 1970s/1980s ?

Presumably this is due to the modern, efficient more compact American begin produced today?

Re: Obviously can't work because, well, they're Chinese

The USA will simply do what they did when Bombardier made a more efficient competitor to the 737 - put a 300% import duty on it.

Re: size

i wonder at what point a "wide body" jet needs to be made wider because of the wide bodies ?

Re: Jesus

Britain landed a vehicle on Mars.....

Re: Jesus

I know the reg has been forced to accept American spelling but I hoped it at least used British sarcasm.

In a story that came down to 'Chinese build a plane but it will be crap cos they aren't Americans' I didn't think it needed the icon

NASA reshuffles dates for Artemis I launch attempt

Re: Reading the corner cutting...

If i read the article correctly, the concern is that the battery to the "deliberately blow up just after the pad" system won't work - so you would have to rely on it blowing itself up.

Cos in this economy rocket engineers would forced to beg on the street.

If NASA are paying enough to attract engineers from the real world they are causing worker shortages and inflation. Cancellation of SLS is equivalent to building a new Caltech

Twilio more than decimates staff, CEO says it grew too fast

Re: Nice to see ...

Although technically only if they kill them - tough on the workers but makes classics teachers happy

Who?

Can't remember who they are or what they do.

However I welcomes tech companies now having their workers draw lots and have 10% beaten to death by the other 90%.

Twitter whistleblower Zatko disses bird site as dysfunctional data dump

That's which we make foreign billionaires become citizens before controlling media empires. So that they are then aligned with the good of the nation and would never broadcast anything harmful

Software fees to make up 10% of John Deere's revenues by 2030

Re: What Could be Useful for the Farmers ...

Or more worryingly is in a city 2 hours drive away and has an area the size of a european country to cover and isn't due to your farm for 4-6 weeks and it's the middle of harvest

Re: Protectionism

If you pander to them they'll never learn

Taiwan’s GlobalWafers races to break ground in Texas before tax breaks dissolve

Re: Good luck finding Water

You only need water and electricity to operate a fab

If you can get a tax break for simply building a building, or promising to build a building, or laying out the marker tape for a building and arrange a ribbon and a silver spade for a political photo op.

Presumably NVidia can just render a CEO and politician into a ground breaking ceremony entirely in a GPU

New startup idea

Following privatised space we can have privatised ICBMs. In orbit is a network of fabs, car plants, bank head offices and movie production companies packaged in cube SATs.

On a message from the appropriate stock market they can fire their retro rockets and break ground anywhere on earth in 4minutes

FCC Commissioner demands review of Starlink rural broadband subsidies

Re: Good! Give the money to Starlink!

No between their subsidised unused roads, subsidised water and power, subsidies to farmers and federal help every time a natural disaster strikes they hate government hand outs

Re: Good! Give the money to Starlink!

Or, and this is a stretch, the government could pay for the fibre and own it and let any telco pay to use it.

Some sort of ultrastructure if you like

Re: Quite Impressive

Guessing the fibre was already installed it just took a few weeks to persuade local telco that there is fibre and please turn it on

Re: Quite Impressive

Yes the kit works, the question is whether it's a good public investment.

Essentially give Starlink a guaranteed subsided business to supply certain rural areas with a service that works from day one, but might not be as great in 5years VS run fibre which can be expanded and improved and supply fast service for decades.

It's like for some remote rural areas it might make more sense to pay a local taxi company rather than run a bus, but it wouldn't necessarily be the best thing to give UBER a $Bn instead of building a subway.

Biden administration prepares to bring hammer down on Chinese chipmakers

Re: Graft

I quite liked their minimalist monochrome scheme. Any patriotic american 2nd amendmentists want to pop over to blighty and continue the revolution?

Re: Well Murica... if Sanctions are working so well...Why do you need more?

The thing about Chinese propaganda is 30minutes later you want some more.